I know that best-of albums are for the most part just a way for the record company to make more money out of the same songs. Still these albums can be useful to get to know an artist. And - like on this album as well - most of the time some new tracks are added, to convince the potential buyer. For myself: I always want to have my collections complete, so I want to buy every single album from an artist I like, including the best-ofs (music industry must like people like me ;-) ). I bought this album in October of 2010. Actually it is a very nice overview of the 10 years during career of The Cranberries before their big hiatus of another 10 years. All their 17 singles from the first 5 albums are on this album, together with one non-single track which was picked by the fans and two brand new songs. I really like most of the songs on this album…

Roses is the latest album of The Cranberries and to be honest, it is my least favourite album at the moment (together with Wake Up and Smell the Coffee). It's not that it is a completely bad album, I still like Dolores her voice and the sound of the band. It is just that overall this album sounds a bit boring and the songs seem to be too simple, too easy. What is missing is a bit of power, some energy, just a few decent rock songs. It definitely lacks a great hitsingle like Zombie, Promises, Ode to My Family, Linger or Animal Instinct. For me personally none of the songs are really leaving an impression and I doubt if any of them will end up in my top 20 list. But maybe my expectations were a bit too high up to begin with. Maybe it is impossible to bring back this great sound of the nineties, because not only the circumstances are different now, but I am different myself as well. …

I can't remember when I heard this album or its songs for the first time. But it must have been somewhere around 1997 (maybe earlier) that I saw the videoclip of Zombie, which left a very big impression. And I still consider this song - which was their biggest hit as well - the best song they've ever made. I bought this album years later, in 2010. It actually is a re-release of their original album No Need to Argue, and contains except for the 13 tracks of the original album, 5 additional tracks from the same time period (1994-1995). It's one of their best albums, containing a lot of their greatest hits, which made The Cranberries one of the musical icons of the 90's (in my opinion). No Need to Argue is The Cranberries second and most successful album. The atmosphere of the album is more dark compared to their previous album. …

Take the top 25 songs - from DIFFERENT ARTISTS - from your overall top songs, to make your ultimate mix tape.I have added their current position in my overall chart to the end of each song, and as you will see, it took me to song number X to get 25 different songs from 25 different artists.Here's mine........

True to Form I have arose to write this at seven o seven in the morning, which for me, is extremely early. Not from a deep slumber, but after lying awake all night with my most refined explanations of seemingly simple thoughts instead. This, of course, has nothing to do with the rather excessive amount of amphetamines I had ingested in the late hours of yesterday. Like the dots of thought being connected with lines of imagination, I began to think, at length, describing different conscious perceivements.

These Ridiculous Thoughts themselves, I considered, are a many great faster than words. As though a thought were the speed of light compared to words, labouring behind at the mere speed of sound. A flash of forked bright lightning, is soon followed by a dull thunder. As is a simple idea a lit match, falling inexorably towards a large puddle of neat gasoline, it hits with a great roar and fire spreads rapidly and uncontrollably in all directions. …

The Cranberries were the first band that introduced me to rock. I surprisingly bought No Need to Argue in a time when my playlist (in my defense I was 12) was filled with bands that I cannot remember listening to without blushing.

So for me The Cranberries are a return to that time. The concert was great - no effects, nothing else but them on the stage playing their songs, most of them from the first four albums. I wished they'd played less of the first album which for me is not exactly their finest hour, and stuck to the second and third which are much better. There were so many good songs that they didn't play, and instead we listened to How and Wanted and Put Me Down (which I personally thought was an uninspired choice for the first encore song) which are good songs but not as good as Daffodil Lamment, Electric Blue, Bosnia and so on and so forth.